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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1930
Page
8
Mr. Co. A Hunter of Hunter Hardware Co. traveled to Salt Lake City for business. Mr. and Mrs. W H Gordon of Gordon's Jewelry Co. spent a few days there during the week for business.
Mr. N. E. McKinnon train master at Milford and Mr. Clark traveling auditor for the Union Pacific System were in Cedar on business Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Ahlstrom and their children from California are staying locally during their visit.
Mr. Wm. Stevenson, district manager for the Texaco Company, spent the first three days of the week touring the territory that covers practically all four southwestern counties of the state.
Work began this week on a new open air dancing pavilion for the American Legion. The 60 by 80 foot structure will stand at the corner of Center and First West streets and is to be ready for dancing on the Fourth.
Three members of the Boy Scout troop sponsored by the Rotary Club received Eagle Scout badges at the weekly lunch on Tuesday. Honorees include Monroe Foster, Errick Foster, and Chauncey Macfarlane, sons of local residents. The Boys Work Committee organized the program with pinning of badges serving as the highlight.
Olsen and his family returned after weeks in the Targhee National Forest Montana where ten other parties worked to curb lodge pole pine beetles. The team sprayed affected trees to twenty two feet with crude oil and set them afire to prevent spread.
Reed H. Gardner of the Dixie Power Co spent Wednesday in St George handling business matters.
Mr. R. M. Burt of Midwest Dairies Inc. is leaving Cedar City to return to the Salt Lake office. Tony Woodhouse, who has worked in Salt Lake City since finishing at the B A C in 19, will take Burt’s place in this territory.
The Cedar City community centers on the discovery of Maurie Graham’s airplane on Cedar Mountain by Elburn Orton and Ward Mortensen. Paro- Wan beya whore is noted as a questionable associate in a stray reference to EBayies’s sheep.
The Forest Service offers Miscellaneous Circuit No. 91 M titled A Forestry Program for Women’s Organizations. It presents brief statements on Federal State municipal and private forestry outlining past progress and remaining work in U S forestry. Prose and verse materials for forestry programs are included and copies are free while supply lasts from the Office of Information U S Department of Agriculture Washington D C.
Mr and Mrs Delman Holyoak and Lenore Holyoak have returned home from Ruth Nevada where they have been employed for the test year.
The Paragonsh Ward Relief Society held a temple excursion during the week. It went Wednesday morning and returned Thursday night with participants including Mrs Ray Robinson Mrs Hetta Edwards Mrs W H Barton Mrs Amelia Robinson Mrs Annie Williamson Mrs Marda J Openshaw Mrs Agnes Talbot and Mrs Adeliade Lund traveling in Miss Effie Robinsons and Amoenzo Tophams car.
Mrs Burras Barton was summoned to Las Vegas this week due to her father Mr Monroe Clark suffering a stroke amid serious illness.
Paragonah postmaster AIrs Alice McBride traveled to Salt Lake City for a postmasters convention but arrived a month early and plans a brief stay with her daughter Mrs Thelma Wood before returning home.
Max Service Station, owned by Vern McBride, is undergoing extensive improvements to improve convenience and add services for travelers. The garage is being refinished and converted into a small dining room for meals, with electric refrigeration and cooking equipment being installed to enhance service.
Mr and Mrs Clifford Edwards who have stayed in Nevada for some time are back home to visit indefinitely.
Mr and Mrs Albert Grosnek of California travel with relatives and friends of Mrs Grosnek formerly Miss Lennie Picak. They plan visits to Milford Kingston and Salt Lake City before returning to their grandmother Mrs Barton who has been ill for a long time.
Mrs May Lister is visiting in Kanosh at present with her daughter Mrs Don Swallow.
Mrs Julia Tate and Mrs Mary Edwards visited from Milford on Sunday to spend time with Mrs W R Edwards.
Mr and Mrs Rulon Barton recently returned from Cedar where Rulon Barton helped with improvements at Max Service Station. The couple’s stay included assistance with renovations and upkeep of the local facility.
Brief mention notes the marriage of Grace Lund to Owen Cor of St George. Grace, youngest daughter of A. W. Lund, is described as a charming Paragonah young lady. They are honeymooning in California and will settle in St George after.
Word from Miss Lertha Topham of the L B D Church reports ongoing missionary duties in Kansas City Kansas with possible extension of a year. She has been in the Texas district previously and is enjoying the work.
Mrs. Lucy Farrow and her daughter Mrs. Jack Berry visited in Mam moth and returned Wednesday morning. Hyrum Dalley was a Cedar City visitor. Misa Ritta Lloyd of Parowan helped at the Smith home and wed Mrs. Smith during her stay. Haying begins as farmers report cool chops and Dalley notes five year best.
Big Vic Carter of Minersville visited here during the week with Ms. Harold Smith. Biss Winell Dalley who had been visiting Salt Lake City for two or three weeks returned a few days ago.
Messrs. Nels Madsen and B R Lawrence motored up from St George where they are working the first of the week, returning the following morning.
Mr Wilford Lawrence and his daughters Loig and Bula with Miss Annie White spent part of Wednesday in Parowan. Lawrence attended to business here while the young ladies called on Miss Davis who had visited them last week.
Mr. Charlies Myles and family ended a two week visit and have returned home. Mr. Lyle Farrow accompanied them to Gantequin before heading to Mammoth in search of work.
Mr Main Simking has sufficiently recovered from his recent illness to be around again, enabling his regular activities and engagements to resume with caution.
Mr and Mrs Ray Hockins came up from Cedar where Ray has been working the first of the week.
Master Dwight Dalley marked his fourteenth birthday Wednesday with simple observance, receiving a customary birthday greeting from his boyfriends in a low key celebration.
The Utah Oil Refining Company stages a Pep Ethyl gasoline demonstration at Max Service Station Saturday evening to showcase its claimed superiority.
Mrs. Mayme Chilton and Mrs. Mabel Clouse motored to Salt Lake City over the week end, touring the deseret capital and returning home later in the week.
The Kansas City Star quotes a dramatic exchange where a woman pressures Finch to conquer fear by confronting life. She challenges his fear with bold lines about grabbing life by the hair and nose, boasting her own fearless stance.
The practice of tossing gauntlets to issue a challenge evolved from mitten protections in early armor to symbolic gloves in plate armor. Gauntlets became a ritual emblem, culminating in Royal coronation ceremonies in England where the king’s champion vows to fight any challenger to uphold the new king's title.
The Kansas City Star recounts a playful note from Thomas A. Edison to his friend Albert B. Chandler dated November 11, 1875. Edison lightly crossed out lines and teased Chandler to pay one of his smallest bills tomorrow, joking about greenbacks enhancing the world.
Experts report the ocean presents deepest ultramarine within the Sargasso Sea and near subtropical belts. Water color shifts to blue green near coasts and to indigo toward the Antarctic, affected by light absorption and suspended materials.
The phrase seven seas now includes major oceans such as the Atlantic Pacific Indian Arctic and Antarctic. Ancient seven senses were understanding speech sight taste hearing smell and touch. The seven wonders list Egypt’s pyramids Babylon’s hanging gardens and other famed sites.
Detroit News notes John Wesley wed a literate widow with four children and a comfortable income after a short courtship of 16 days. Southey called her a “messenger of Satan” while comparing her to infamous biblical figures.
The article explains the rapid daybreak on the moon due to the lack of atmosphere. It describes abrupt sunlight hitting peaks while the surrounding surface remains in deep black darkness, creating a harsh untempered glare.
Prof Mottram reports daily adult woman needs about 2500 calories. Sedentary adult man 8000 calories. Man in hard work 5000 calories. He argues organs digest and use food efficiently and that a child’s needs differ from proportionate adult diet. Fourteen year olds considered as adults for food utilization.
The text notes Napoleon Bonaparte enjoyed Camembert, discovering the cheese during a march in northwest France. His approval boosted Camembert production and it soon became a favored cheese across Europe and beyond.
An old belief says a robin perched by the dying Jesus and sang to comfort Him. The legend explains the robin's red breast as blood from His wounds while it tried to grasp the crown of thorns.
Bedouins value camels over wives with wealth measured by herd size. Ten to twenty day survival without water adds value to camels, saddles are costly, and large herds bring status. Rival chiefs hire bandits to steal camels sparking long feuds. Camels eat thorny givan weed whose dry root yields strong glue used in top quality cement.
An aging reader notes obituary sections grow more engaging with time as he recalls acquaintances from youth. He reflects on how necrological notices shift from distant reports to personal recollections of people he knew.
Courts warn that entering a field already occupied calls for distinct trade names to avoid confusion. Infringement does not require identical words but arises when a name is so like another in form or sound that a clear memory of the original could mislead.
The passage contrasts eighteenth century small schemes and petty rulers with Swift’s sharp judgment of the era. It notes limited originality and incremental achievements, then shifts to a vivid image of a tall figure among a court, and ends recalling earlier whales and later goldfish in the Marlborough era.
The barbed wire story starts with Joseph F. Glidden of Da Kalb Illinois receiving a 1874 patent for barbed fence wire and a companion patent for a manufacturing machine. Production rose with mild steel and grew in the United States from 1874 to 1927 with tonnage figures: 5 tons in 1874, 40 000 tons in 1860, 200 000 tons in 1890, 200 000 tons in 1924, and 180 000 tons in 1927.
Judge Robert H. Day of the Ohio Supreme Court notes that juries were once summoned not to hear cases but to weigh evidence. Juries served as the community’s guardians, presumed to know the facts, and were chosen to represent local neighborhoods.
A playful fragment lists objects offering maxims for success. The Clock urges punctuality while the Calendar exhorts staying current. The Ice cautions calmness, the Pencil warns against misdirection, and the Fire redirects troubles into progress.
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